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Companies in the healthcare sector are three times more likely to encounter data theft than the average firm, according to a report released this morning. The industry also sees 340 percent more security incidents and attacks than usual, said Carl […]

Health data breaches continued to account for the most amount of data breaches for the first half of 2015, according to Gemalto’s Breach Level Index. Specifically, health data breaches accounted for 21.1 percent of the total number of incidents, and […]

The records of 94 million patients have been stolen from healthcare entities so far this year, according to a report from conservative think tank American Action Forum (AAF). The organization estimated the cost of that theft at $37.4 billion by […]

Full article by Dr Patricia Williams, editor of 2015 Australian Guidelines for the Protection of Health Information The increased connectivity to existing computer networks has exposed medical devices to cybersecurity vulnerabilities from which they were previously shielded. For the prevention […]

Ponemon Institute released its annual Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis, sponsored by IBM. According to the benchmark study of 350 companies spanning 11 countries, the average consolidated total cost of a data breach is $3.8 million representing a 23 […]

The biggest risks to your organisation aren’t technical but on the people side, said Chris Apgar, president and CEO of privacy and security compliance firm Apgar and Associates, speaking during a webinar on data protection presented by DataMotion. Risk assessment […]

The hacking of the health records of as many as 1 in 3 Americans has awoken the health care industry to an unpleasant reality: After spending billions to install computerized documents in hospitals and networks, it now must spend billions […]

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, a Washington, D.C.-based health insurer, has acknowledged a cyberattack on its company where approximately 1.1 million current and former members had their data compromised. READ MORE…

In what may become a trend, an insurance company is denying a claim from a California healthcare provider following the leak of data on more than 32,000 patients. The insurer, Columbia Casualty, charges that Cottage Health System did an inadequate […]